eames-with-a-rose:

Where is , the post that analyzes how completely an utter of a loser Booker is i need it now

Since you asked (no one asked I just want to write it), here’s this year’s Sanremo songs top3 of each Guard member.

Nicky

As we already established last year, Nicky loves a powerful ballad and old style Sanremo songs, so I guess his top3 would look like this:

1. Massimo Ranieri - Lettera al di là dal mare
2. Irama - Ovunque Sarai
3. Michele Bravi - L’inverno dei fiori
Extra: I believe he’s also a low-key fan of Elisa and Noemi so those two songs are n#4 and 5 of his list)

Joe

He likes the love songs, he likes the beat, he likes the joyful pop. His top3 is a bit of a mix:

1. Elisa - O forse sei tu
2. La Rappresentante di Lista - Ciao ciao
3. Gianni Morandi - Apri tutte le porte
Extra: he sings “Dove si balla” loudly under the shower and “Sei tu” softly at Nicky’s ear to make him snort and kiss him on the nose

Nile

She still doesn’t get all the hype around Sanremo but she enjoys the evenings (and nights) on the couch with her fam. Her top3 includes mostly the songs that ended up in her Spotify workout playlist:

1. Gianni Morandi - Apri tutte le porte
2. Ditonellapiaga e Donatella Rettore - Chimica
3. Rkomi - Insuperabile

Booker

He still doesn’t want to admit he watches Sanremo like the rest of the family and has chosen his top3 based on the last positions in the chart:

1. Tananai - Sesso occasionale
2. Ana Mena - Duecentomila ore
3. Giusy Ferreri - Miele
Extra: he actually likes all these songs and sings them under his breath when no one’s around

Andy

Basically anything she can scream of falsetto sing is good for her. This is why she wins this year as well:

1. Mahmood and Blanco - Brividi
2. Le Vibrazioni - Tantissimo
3. Aka7even - Perfetta così

Quynh

She doesn’t have a top3 but she likes the one with the Gospel Choir (Achille Lauro - Domenica) and the one she has learned the dance of (La rappresentante di lista - Ciao ciao).

hachinana87:

tog in the iconic moskau - dschinghis khan (1979) costumes for @salzundhonig based on this post <3

spectralarchers:

You know what fucks the most with me about Booker’s first death and how much more it hurts? Is that he died hanged as a deserter - and we know from the comics that he hung there for 3 whole days while the army was camping nearby. 3 days in the Russian cold, with his body probably stripped of wool and all the remaining clothing that the other soldiers couldn’t use (at the beginning of the Russian campaign it was warm and nice, so the soldiers discarded their clothing thinking they wouldn’t need it, which meant that the soldiers would loot dead bodies for more clothing to stay warm the further into Russia and Winter they got).

So, Booker’s practically naked (he’s not in the comics), dying over and over again for 3 whole days in the Russian cold, probably shivering as hell and unable to do anything but to prove to the others that he is indeed dead: hang there and pretend. 

But you know who else got hung and couldn’t prove or pretend that they were dead?

Andromache and Quynh. Andromache and Quynh who have been alive and tried to die for MILLENIA couldn’t pretend they were dead while hanging at the end of a rope, but Booker, on his first death, apparently managed to do just that while freezing all over again, possibly dreaming of the rest of the Old Guard at the same time and wondering what the fuck is going on.

Now, I know there’s a different between a crowd of people going “these two women are being hung as witches, let’s make sure they’re dead” and starving, freezing soldiers who just want to go home after killing the deserters they caught while on the retreat from a disastrous military campaign, but I can’t help but think about exactly Booker made his first descent into immortality the very same way that got Andromache and Quynh sentenced as witches.

Did they talk about it? Did Andy dream of Booker, hanging off the noose of a make-do scaffold in ice cold Winter, and get flashbacks to this specific moment in time when her and Quynh were “executed”? 

ANYWAYS, I just feel like this makes Booker’s first death even more excruciating to think about. 

yellowstripedtowel:

I was just thinking about how, at the beginning of the movie, Booker doesn’t hug anyone. Doesn’t even shake their hand. That’s only for the others. He is completely distant, except when fighting (or hugging Andy goodbye BUT I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT GOODBYE).

It just lends credence to the idea that Booker never told anyone anything, except for Nile. Because he didn’t want her to make the same mistake with her family as he did.

Like… my good French bitch. COME ON. DID 1800s MASCULINITY MESS YOU UP THAT BAD.

Who am I kidding, it probably did.

The Old Guard + John Mulaney Quotes (4/4)

Andy being her cynical self:

Joe about Booker’s betrayal:

Nile jumping out of a moving car with nowhere to escape to:

Quynh in the iron coffin:

Nile about Joe and Nicky:

Immediately after the flashback where Lykon dies:

Joe and Nicky after Merrick says anything:

Booker coping (badly) with immortality:

mmmidrich: